Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-29
MISSING LINKS.

In California ostriches sell for 81, COS
per pair
The tendency in Tennesses is toward
small farms.
Eighty-four different languages and
dialects are spoken In New York cltV.
The Ne,o Orleans Rcayttae says that
1t is a lucky child that looks like itt
rich aunt
Newark, N. j., expended $500, 600 ON
sewer, and now finds the scheme Ia
be failure.
Eighty-five per cent of the 1855
"superfuous" women In Massachusetts
are widows.
George w. Gable, 1t is said, Is about
TO settle down in Boston Us Bible
class teacher.
The whole length Of mail routes in
opertion in the United States amounts
to $4,000 miles.
An Englishman writes to Henry La
bouchere that he wants 10 enlist, but
is unable to do so because his teeth are
bad.
A church in Birmingham, Ala, has
ly-designed SUPPLIES Of Scotch lawn
and violet caps.
Mrs. A. Il. Coulter, of Fairbanks.
Ala, made bed-quilt containing six
teen thousand pieces less than the size
Of u mans thumb-naiL
The largest nugget of silver yet oh
tanned was dug up in Arizona, and
weighed 43. POO ounces. valued at the
same number of dollars.
The transcontinental railroad COM
panies give it out that sixty thousand
persons are booked for California
during the coming fall and winter.
A pleasant device for ornamentation
at French garden party was foun-
tain, at the baSe of which were blocks
of ice mingled with ferns and flowers,
A petrifed pine knot was a curiosity
lately found in Georgia. IL was about
one foot in length and had the shape
and appearance of an ordinary fat
knot.
A $4,000 granite monument recent
ly erected in Calvary cemetery, New
York city, by blind man bears the
inscriptions: ITO outlast the British
monarch"
Lumber Is in great demand in San
Francisco, the supply not being equal to
the wants of all buyers All coast
mills are running and new ones are
being built.
The geographical center Of Proyi-
dence, r. l., is occupied by marsh
worth about 81 ,000,0 1t is q great
producer Of noxious odors, mosquitoes,
and malaria.
A well-known professor gave notice
that he could not meet his "classes."
A wag deleted the &c and made il
classes" The professor again deloted
the AZ" and finished by having the
best of it.
Zachary Taylors daughter, the
widow of Col. Bliss, is still living in
Winchester. Va, in good health and
well-preserved beauty. Her second
husband. Phil cambridge, died several
years ago.
Miss Daisy Garland, daughter of the
Attorney General, will be one OF the
debutantes in Washington next winter.
She is handsome brunette, with bril-
liant eyes, black hair, olive complex
ion, and languid manner.
President Timothy Dwight, Of Yale,
has in many ways an exaggerated re-
semblance to President James MoCosh,
of Princeton. Both are gray. bald,
tall, and have the same scholarly
stoop, sharp features, and gray side
whiskers.
III D.;,..,, Afo....,,toL 4. al AIT.
as Sarah Bernhardt, and painted like
sign-post. She has her preferences;
will not lot anybody bore her, and
sometimes snubs Ambassadors at a
reception to chat pleasantly with a
popular tenor
Senator Hearst says Of San Fran
cisco: After travelling all over the
United States and going into nearly
every important city, give you my
word that no city quarter the size OF
this Except perhaps New Orlcans) is
so far behind in the way Of improve
ments."
Felix Pyat is n candidate for the
vacant seat in the French senate for
the department of the Cher. 81 shall
enter the senate" lac writes, ''as cart
ridge of dynamite to blow up II can
that obstruction 10 the republic, and
reduce the Luxembourg to the level OF
the Tuileries.
Nine. Barrios, widow of the late
President of Guatemala, is a genuine
type of Southern beauty yet youthful
and charming. and when gorgeously
arrayed for swell reception strug-
giles under the weight Of diamonds
worth 100000 OF course she does
not lack adOrers.
Ii Hung Chang. the Chinese states
man said to = missionary; II have
read the bible know all you Chris
tian nations preach the golden rule Of
DO unto others As you would be done
by but none of you live up to H. The
Americans come nearest TO living up
to it. however.
Autograph on a Brick.